Description
The ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Groups and Communities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9. This is due to a lack of validation on user-supplied data in the 'pm_upload_image' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their user capabilities to Administrator.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
References
- MISChttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ef3c7fb-27f5-4829-8cb6-d3a52778a689?source=cve
- MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/js/profile-magic-admin-power.js#L361
- MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/js/profile-magic-admin-power.js#L390
- MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/partials/crop.php
- MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities/trunk/public/partials/coverimg_crop.php
- MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3111609/